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A man wearing goggles and a “construction outfit" robbed a Gold Coast neighborhood bank today. At 2:28 p.m. a male suspect wearing a construction outfit robbed a North Community Bank branch at 2 W. Elm St., according to police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety. Baety said no injuries were reported. According to the FBI, the suspect is 6-foot-1 to 6-foot-4 and was wearing a white construction hat and goggles, a construction vest, gloves, a white sweatshirt, and a white scarf during the holdup.

Can you really have a federal trial of a reputed Chicago Outfit enforcer without using his nicknames? We'll find out when Rudy "The Chin" Fratto — charged with helping rig forklift contracts for trade shows at McCormick Place — goes on trial in November. Some colorful nicknames will not be used, according to recent federal court filings. That's because Fratto's co-defendant, Inverness businessman William Anthony Degironemo, also known as "Billy D" in the indictment, filed a motion for the nicknames to be removed.

There was one how-did-she-do-that moment at Katy Perry's show Sunday at Allstate Arena, something I've never seen before at a pop concert. In the midst of one song, "Hot N Cold," the 26-year-old pop singer changed outfits five — five! — times with the help of an assistant and a makeshift onstage dressing room. Eat your heart out, Cher. Even in a fairy tale, the heroine apparently can never have enough outfits. Perry fit 22 songs into a two-hour narrative loosely reminiscent of "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory," Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" or the "Big Rock Candy Mountain" children's video — with an Elvis imitator in the role of Little Bunny Foo Foo. Prancing and singing amid lollipops and cotton candy, Perry came on like a ditzy kids' entertainer.

It may be hard to believe after seeing him wear a chicken costume at this year's Grammys and a Darth Vader costume at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, but Cee Lo Green - the man behind the hit revenge anthem "Forget You" - insists he's really not that different from you and I. "I'm a normal guy at heart," said Green, sporting a plain black T-shirt and sweatpants after rehearsing for Macy's Glamorama at the Chicago Theatre Friday. "But, on stage, they don't pay me for normal. " Green's outfit during his Lollapalooza performance Aug. 6 was hardly normal.

It was the bank heist version of robbing Peter to pay Paul. A Chicago woman held up a TCF Bank over the Memorial Day weekend — in part to repay the $20,000 she had been caught embezzling from a Chase Bank where she worked, federal authorities alleged. Navahcia Edwards, 23, was arrested Thursday on charges that she dressed up as a nun and donned a mask, took over the TCF Bank in Palos Heights at gunpoint and fled with $120,000 in cash from the vault. She had once worked at that bank as well.

It has been a quarter-century since the two brothers were found, one on top of the other, buried in a shallow grave in a freshly planted Indiana cornfield. The June 1986 slayings of Las Vegas mob chieftain Anthony Spilotro and his brother, Michael, captured national attention and became part of mob lore. The movie "Casino" immortalized their deaths — albeit incorrectly — and the "Family Secrets" trial detailed their final moments of life, including Anthony Spilotro's request to say a prayer before being beaten and strangled in a Bensenville basement.

FBI investigators on Monday were searching for two people who donned nun outfits and masks and robbed a Palos Heights bank. The bank robbery happened at 2 p.m. Sunday at the TCF Bank branch at 6410 W. 127th St., according to FBI officials. The suspects wore nun masks and habits similar to ones depicted in last year's movie "The Town," officials said. The robbers pulled out handguns, took over the bank and forced an employee to retrieve cash before they drove off in a light-colored sedan, officials said.

On National Compliment Day, The Faker set her alarm early and spent an extra 20 minutes primping. She donned her cutest jeans, her of-the-moment-est kicks and hit the pavement by 8 a.m., ready for the compliments to start pouring in. She's still waiting. National Compliment Day was Jan. 24. It's possible, of course, folks are intimidated by her cuteness. It's also possible, although far less likely, that she misunderstood the holiday's mission just a tad. Oh, fine. It's the latter.

James Swan hates your house. So much so that he wrote a book about it, in fact: "101 Things I Hate About Your House" (HCI, $18.95). You, on the other hand, are rather partial to your house. It provides you shelter, for starters. Plus it's full of all your favorite stuff: cherished photos, irreplaceable mementos, super-cute shoes from that super-cute boutique with the not-so-cute prices. But do you love it? "I want to show people that just by rolling up your sleeves and putting in a little effort," he says, "you can truly fall in love with your space.